Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes

The judge said okay and allowed him to remove himself as counsel of record.

So Nick Briner, case this high profile, this big of a deal, double murder, has a public defender right now.

And that public defender is going to be the one who stays with him at least through the arraignment, it sounds like.

Don't know if he'll get another lawyer, but Robes, even if you don't know who this lawyer is,

You know this lawyer.

He's that L.A.

dude, right?

There's just some L.A.

lawyers who represent high profile folks.

He looks every bit that part with the suit and he's just that guy.

So when we heard that Nick Reiner had hired this guy, like, wow, what defense is he going to come up with?

Because we knew it was going to be something.

Yes, and when you have that kind of a lawyer with that kind of a name and that kind of a book hailing from L.A., you know it's going to require that kind of money.

Because not everybody can hire Alan Jackson to defend them.

And it turns out now it looks like we don't know the official reason why he stepped away.

But I did tell you I was reading in the New York Times, and I think this is interesting.

This is how they put it.

It may suggest...

that the Reiner family, Nick has two siblings, of course, we know that they spoke out after the deaths of their parents.

They say that this move may suggest that the family has distanced itself from Nick Reiner and his legal case, at least financially.